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NewsMax.com   Tuesday July 8, 2003 4:20 p.m. EDTGrad Student Gives Al Qaeda Bombing Map Working on a laptop, a George Mason University graduate student mapped every business and industrial sector in the U.S. economy, and the fiber-optic network that connects them. The Washington Post writes: "He can click on a bank in Manhattan and see who has communication lines running into it and where. He can zoom in on Baltimore and find the choke point for trucking warehouses. He can drill into a cable trench between Kansas and Colorado and determine how to create the most havoc with a...

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat Student's Maps Illustrate Concerns About Public Information By Laura Blumenfeld Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 8, 2003; Page A01 Sean Gorman's professor called his dissertation "tedious and unimportant." Gorman didn't talk about it when he went on dates because "it was so boring they'd start staring up at the ceiling." But since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Gorman's work has become so compelling that companies want to seize it, government officials want to suppress it, and al Qaeda operatives -- if they could get their hands on it -- would find a terrorist treasure...